Vargas also founded an organization, Define American, whose goal is to start a conversation about the moral decisions involved in our immigration debate, in part by spotlighting "a growing 21st century Underground Railroad: American citizens who are forced to fill in where our broken immigration system fails. From principals to pastors, these everyday immigrant allies are simply trying to do the right thing."

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